Surgical measures to combat obesity are very effective in terms of weight loss, recovery from diabetes, and improvement in cardiovascular risk factors. However, previous studies found both positive and negative results regarding the effect of bariatric surgery on health care utilization. Using...

The aim of this cost-effectiveness study was to compare a combined operant programme plus cognitive|relaxation programme with an operant programme plus attention-control and to compare both programmes with a waiting-list control group and with operant rehabilitation provided, as usual, by the...

For cost-benefit analysis, health technologies with multiple effects should be valued in a single scenario by a holistic willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure. Recent studies instead used decomposed scenarios in which respondents report their WTP for each individual effect. Evidence can be found that...